Wrapping our 5th Season of Inside Deloitte Studios on a high note, Nelson welcomes former (self-described) A/V nerd and current Experience Management National Market Offering Lead Michelle McGuire Christian to the podcast. Having come to Deloitte by way of a decade-plus career at Turner Broadcasting and CNN, Michelle offers a master class in mass communication and technology. Our stops along the way include observations about being the oldest of six siblings, ruminations on Appalachian-style clogging and hard-core cheerleading gymnastics, and an accounting of that one time she almost ran over Hollywood superstar director James Cameron — who’s directing multiple Avatar spinoffs in the soundstage adjacent to the Manhattan Beach studio — with her Prius. Cue the Titanic soundtrack.

Timestamps:

• Tell me about your early days. | 03:33.7
• How was being the oldest chlild? (Leader) | 10:05.0
• Tell me about your college experience. | 15:28.3
• How did you get into media? | 18:05.2
• How did the digital transformation change television? | 23:15.4
• What was the transformation like for the people happening in the industry? | 24:56.4
• How far are we from brands doing advertisement placement themselves? | 29:10.0
• Advertisment placement and pricing discussion. | 33:16.2
• What brought you to southern California? | 37:20.5
• The day Michelle almost ran over James Cameron. | 40:05.6
• Nelson's two questions. | 42:59.2